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Hundreds of activists defied threats from Mali's military government and demonstrated over the weekend in the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago. The demonstrators in the capital, Bamako, protested a new bill initiated by Mali’s transitional government...

Thousands of people in Serbia marked six months since a train station tragedy in the country’s north killed 16 people and triggered a wave of anti-corruption protests that have shaken populist President Aleksandar Vucic’s tight grip on power. Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade...

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President Joseph Kabila so that he can face trial on charges of supporting a rebel insurgency in the country’s east, the justice minister said. Justice Minister Constant Mutamba told...

Thousands of people rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in support of the military junta after an alleged coup attempt and comments by an American official criticizing junta leader Ibrahim Traore. The West African country’s military government recently said it foiled a “major plot” to...

The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks—defusing an escalating battle with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announced his resignation, saying he will formally step...

Ecuador's opposition party filed another objection to the recent presidential election results, according to a video released by the Citizens' Revolution party. Ecuador's elections body denied a request from the leftist opposition to recount votes, but the Citizens' Revolution party said it handed...

Gabon’s constitutional court confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup, won the Central African nation’s April 12 presidential election. Oligui Nguema won the election with 58,074 votes, which accounts for 94.85 percent of votes cast...

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old. The two-day meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Central Council, comes as Abbas seeks...

A court in Ivory Coast ruled that Tidjane Thiam, a former CEO of Credit Suisse, is not eligible to run for president because of his dual Ivorian-French nationality, according to a lawyer representing him. Thiam won his party’s primary on Friday in an uncontested vote and was widely seen as the main...